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The research will bring together a national collaboration of government authorities, wastewater utilities, universities and other research organisations and commercial laboratories (Photo: UQ)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

April 16, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Australian researchers have achieved the first step in developing an early warning surveillance system to track the prevalence of COVID-19 in the community by testing raw sewage.<\/p>\n

Researchers from the University of Queensland\u00a0 and the CSIRO have successfully demonstrated the presence of SARS-CoV2, the virus which causes COVID-19, in untreated sewage.<\/p>\n

A proof of concept study was completed last week using wastewater samples from two wastewater treatment plants in south-east Queensland, representing populations living in the Brisbane region.<\/p>\n

UQ and CSIRO researchers found RNA fragments of SARS-CoV2 in untreated sewage which would have been shed in the wastewater stream by COVID-19 infected people.<\/p>\n

Director of UQ\u2019s Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences, Prof Kevin Thomas, said the method built on work by researchers in the Netherlands and United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a major development that enables surveillance of the spread of the virus through Australian communities,\u201d Prof Thomas said.<\/p>\n

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said the wastewater surveillance pilot was extremely encouraging and had the potential to strengthen Australia\u2019s response to the pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA national program based on this work could add to the broader suite of measures our government can use in the identification and containment of COVID-19,” Minister Hunt said.<\/p>\n

CSIRO chief executive Dr Larry Marshall said the testing would help Australia manage COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hope is eventually we will be able to not just detect the geographic regions where COVID-19 is present but the approximate number of people infected \u2013 without testing every individual in a location,” he said.<\/p>\n

“This will give the public a better sense of how well we are containing this pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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